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Terry L. Erwin was affiliated with the National Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research was predominantly situated within Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Forestry, and Insect Science.

Their work covered a range of main topics, including Forest ecology and management, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Fire effects on ecosystems, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, African Botany and Ecology Studies, and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

Terry L. Erwin contributed to several recent papers, which include:

  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests, 2020, Science
  • Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests, 2020, Nature Communications
  • The global abundance of tree palms, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Author Correction: Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Carabid beetle (Coleoptera, Carabidae) richness, diversity, and community structure in the understory of temporarily flooded and non-flooded Amazonian forests of Ecuador, 2021, ZooKeys

Frequent publication venues for their work were:

  • Nature Communications
  • Science
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • ZooKeys
  • Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications (Wageningen University & Research)

Terry L. Erwin collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Timothy R. Baker
  • Ted R. Feldpausch
  • Edmar Almeida de Oliveira
  • Ana Andrade
  • Luzmila Arroyo

Best Publications

  • Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest.

    Oliver L. Phillips;Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Simon L. Lewis;Joshua B. Fisher

  • TROPICAL FORESTS: THEIR RICHNESS IN COLEOPTERA AND OTHER ARTHROPOD SPECIES

    Terry L. Erwin

  • Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

    R J W Brienen;O L Phillips;T R Feldpausch;T R Feldpausch;E Gloor

  • Terrestrial Arthropod Assemblages: Their Use in Conservation Planning

    C. Kremen;R. K. Colwell;T. L. Erwin;D. D. Murphy

  • The seven impediments in invertebrate conservation and how to overcome them

    Pedro Cardoso;Pedro Cardoso;Terry L. Erwin;Paulo A.V. Borges;Tim R. New

  • Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns in Amazonian forest biomass

    Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Oliver L. Phillips;Yadvinder Malhi;Samuel Almeida

  • Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate

    C. A. Quesada;C. A. Quesada;O. L. Phillips;M. Schwarz;C. I. Czimczik

  • Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests

    O. L. Phillips;R. V. Martínez;L. Arroyo;T. R. Baker

  • Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots.

    Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Oliver L. Phillips;Yadvinder Malhi;Samuel Almeida

  • Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates

    T. R. Feldpausch;J. Lloyd;J. Lloyd;S. L. Lewis;S. L. Lewis;R. J. W. Brienen

  • Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001.

    O. L. Phillips;T. R. Baker;T. R. Baker;L. Arroyo;N. Higuchi

  • Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

    Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert;Timothy R. Baker;Kyle G. Dexter;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • An evolutionary basis for conservation strategies

    Terry L. Erwin

  • Tropical Forest Canopies: The Last Biotic Frontier

    Terry L. Erwin

  • Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

    Martin J. P. Sullivan;Joey Talbot;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips

  • Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites

    Edward T.A. Mitchard;Ted R. Feldpausch;Ted R. Feldpausch;Roel J.W. Brienen;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez

  • Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling

    Sophie Fauset;Michelle O Johnson;Manuel Gloor;Timothy R Baker

  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

    Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Kofi Affum-Baffoe;Carolina Castilho

  • How Many Species Are There?: Revisited

    Terry L. Erwin

  • Limited tolerance by insects to high temperatures across tropical elevational gradients and the implications of global warming for extinction

    Carlos García-Robledo;Erin K. Kuprewicz;Charles L. Staines;Terry L. Erwin

  • Plot Data from: "Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink."

    Roel J. W. Brienen;Oliver L. Phillips;Ted R. Feldpausch;Emanuel Gloor

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Carlos A. Quesada
Carlos A. Quesada National Institute of Amazonian Research
David A. Neill
David A. Neill Missouri Botanical Garden
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Nigel C. A. Pitman
Nigel C. A. Pitman Field Museum of Natural History
Marcos Silveira
Marcos Silveira Universidade Federal do Acre

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